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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 59
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Israel is separated from their God by iniquity—Their sins testify against them—Messiah shall intercede, come to Zion, and redeem the repentant.
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Behold,</span> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 2.">hand</a> is not <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 35: 8.">shortened</a>, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of.">hear</a>:
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But your iniquities have <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Access to; TG Separation.">separated</a> between you and your God, and your <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 15.">sins</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/2c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR have made (him) hide.">have</a> hid <i>his</i> face from you, that he will not <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/59/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Mosiah 11: 25 (23-25); Mosiah 21: 15 (13-15); D&C 101: 7.">hear</a>.
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For your hands are defiled with <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 22.">blood</a>, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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None calleth for justice, nor <i>any</i> pleadeth for truth: they <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Trust Not in the Arm of Flesh.">trust</a> in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 15: 35; Ps. 7: 14.">mischief</a>, and bring forth iniquity.
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They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works <i>are</i> works of iniquity, and the act of violence <i>is</i> in their hands.
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Their feet <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 4 (4-6).">run</a> to <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 1: 16 (10-19).">evil</a>, and they make <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Rashness.">haste</a> to <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/59/7d" mark="d" type="A" title="Rom. 3: 15.">shed</a> innocent blood: their thoughts <i>are</i> thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction <i>are</i> in their paths.
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The way of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peace of God.">peace</a> they know not; and <i>there is</i> no <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/8b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR equity, justice.">judgment</a> in their goings: they have made them <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/8c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Wickedness.">crooked</a> paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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&#182; Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR charity, righteousness.">justice</a> overtake us: we wait for <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 8: 15.">light</a>, but behold obscurity; for brightness, <i>but</i> we <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> in darkness.
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We <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 29.">grope</a> for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if <i>we had</i> no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; <i>we are</i> in desolate places as dead <i>men.</i>
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We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but <i>there is</i> none; for salvation, <i>but</i> it is far off from us.
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For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 23 (22-23).">testify</a> against us: for our transgressions <i>are</i> with us; and <i>as for</i> our iniquities, we <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 14.">know</a> them;
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In transgressing and lying against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR honesty.">equity</a> cannot enter.
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Yea, truth faileth; and he <i>that</i> departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> saw <i>it,</i> and it displeased him that <i>there was</i> no judgment.
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&#182; And he saw that <i>there was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE no one able to help.">no</a> man, and wondered that <i>there was</i> no <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 18; Heb. 7: 25 (25-26); D&C 45: 3 (3-5).">intercessor</a>: therefore his <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 1: 15; Jacob 6: 5; Alma 5: 33; 3 Ne. 9: 14.">arm</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/59/16d" mark="d" type="D" title="IE The LORD brought salvation to man.">brought</a> <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/59/16e" mark="e" type="A" title="Isa. 63: 5.">salvation</a> unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
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For he put on <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 27: 18 (15-18).">righteousness</a> as a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 11: 5; Isa. 61: 10; Rom. 13: 12; Eph. 6: 14 (11, 13-17).">breastplate</a>, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance <i>for</i> clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
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According to <i>their</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 36: 15; Alma 41: 3 (2-5); Alma 42: 27; D&C 1: 10 (9-10).">deeds</a>, accordingly he will <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">repay</a>, fury to his adversaries, <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Retribution.">recompence</a> to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
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So shall they <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR stand in awe of, or reverence.">fear</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mal. 1: 11.">name</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun.  When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of.">Spirit</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall lift up a standard against him.
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&#182; And the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 11: 26.">Redeemer</a> shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/59/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">come</a> to <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/59/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Zion.">Zion</a>, and unto them that <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/59/20d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 100: 15 (15-17).">turn</a> from transgression in Jacob, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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As for me, this <i>is</i> my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/59/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 11: 27; Heb. 10: 16 (16-17); D&C 49: 9 (5-9).">covenant</a> with them, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; My spirit that <i>is</i> upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, from henceforth and for ever.
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